Just a day after NVIDIA has announced its “virtualizable” workstation GPUs based on the Kepler architecture, Dell is following up with a 2U rack workstation that takes advantage of them by being the first four-GPU hardware platform to be certified for the Citrix XenServer GPU pass-through.
It is now possible for companies that are working in design, architecture and other creative (and sensitive) areas to deploy a centralized hardware computing platform that can be securely accessed by employes from any device, any place – and yet be more secure and more manageable because workstations are in a data centers, instead of spread-out across offices.
A single Dell Precision R5500 WorkStation can accommodate up to four concurrent GPU users and according to Citrix, “This makes it a very attractive option for customers looking to deliver high-end 3D professional graphics while keeping their intellectual property safe in the data center.” If you’re unfamiliar with the high-end computer graphics world, there is no much intellectual property (IP), that art assets are typically never be allowed to leave the data center. Now, they would never need to.
And while most users would never know (or care?) what’s really inside the server, it uses Xeon Processors, up to 192GB of RAM, four large GPUs and up to six SAS drives, or five SATA drives.
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